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How to be a sustainability champion
11 Nov 2021 | Gudrun Ravetz
Gudrun Ravetz, Director and Chair of Vet Sustain and BVA Past President, calls on all veterinary professionals to sign up to a sustainability pledge at London Vet Show.
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That’s not very “ladylike”: Microaggressions that harm women
13 Oct 2021 | Gudrun Ravetz
Part of BVA’s #BigConversation on microaggressions. Chair of BVA’s good workplace working group, Gudrun Ravetz, highlights a few common sayings which undermine women in our workplaces, explaining the assumptions these are based on and why they can cause harm.
The most important benefit your workplace can provide
29 Apr 2021 | Gudrun Ravetz
Gudrun Ravetz, Chair of the BVA Good Workplace Working Group, draws on her experiences in developing the #GoodWorkplaces resources to explain why a positive culture is the most important benefit any workplace can provide.
Experiences outside the day job – the ‘cement’ of my career
27 Jan 2021 | Gudrun Ravetz
Vet Gudrun Ravetz explores the personal development opportunities she's had during her career and how they've led to transferable skills that support her professional development.
Why is sustainability a vital part of workplace culture?
11 Dec 2020 | Gudrun Ravetz | Environmental issues
BVA past president and Vet Sustain Director, Gudrun Ravetz discusses why it is important to embed sustainability into the culture of your veterinary workplace.
The elements of a good working environment
31 Oct 2019 | Gudrun Ravetz
Experiences and the environment at work significantly shape our career progression and determine our engagement, enjoyment, and satisfaction with our job. Unsurprisingly, this all has an effect on retention in a job, something that the veterinary profession is challenged by.
A picture is worth a thousand words – translating the 5 welfare needs on set
11 Dec 2018 | Gudrun Ravetz | Wellbeing
Speaking from first-hand experience as a vet on set, BVA Past President, Gudrun Ravetz, explores how the veterinary profession can play a powerful role in advising on the responsible use of animals in advertising.
The workforce crisis part 3 - Are you Mark or Elizabeth? In 2018, it really shouldn’t matter
13 Nov 2018 | Gudrun Ravetz | Wellbeing
Gudrun Ravetz asks why, as an evidence-based profession, do we not show the same evidence-based transparent approach to how we value and pay our employees.
What is the disease risk from imported dogs?
12 Sep 2018 | Gudrun Ravetz | The veterinary profession
Many pet owners have written in over the past few days to share concerns regarding our advice against importing stray dogs from abroad. Here we’ve compiled answers to some of the most common questions we have been posed regarding disease risk.
The politics of animal sentience
22 Nov 2017 | Gudrun Ravetz | Vet services
BVA Senior Vice President Gudrun Ravetz discusses the House of Commons vote to reject the inclusion of animal sentience into the EU Withdrawal Bill, and the truth behind the headlines.
Can abattoirs meet our animal welfare expectations?
09 Aug 2017 | Gudrun Ravetz | Public health
BVA, alongside our specialist division the Veterinary Public Health Association (VPHA), have talked about the necessary culture of compassion within abattoirs, and our evidence based stance call for all animals to be stunned before slaughter. With these BVA priorities in mind, JVP John Fishwick and BVA president Gudrun Ravetz visited a lamb abattoir in Wales.
Making vets' voices heard on Brexit
02 May 2017 | Gudrun Ravetz | The veterinary profession
Whatever your vote in the EU referendum last June, the result came as a shock to most of us! At the forefront of this was the personal impact the referendum outcome had on our EU colleagues living and working in the UK, who make a vital contribution to the UK veterinary workforce and who were, overnight, facing the uncertainty of their status being used as political bargaining chip in Brexit negotiations.
Stop normalising suffering: vets speaking out about brachys
27 Jan 2017 | Gudrun Ravetz | Practice management
The health and welfare problems of brachycephalics is a priority for BVA and we continue to use our professional voice in the media to push for an improvement in the health and welfare of these animals as well as working with other stakeholders to look for solutions.
Can we avoid human error in veterinary practice?
09 Nov 2016 | Gudrun Ravetz | Practice management
‘To err is human’, so the saying goes. But if you’re a clinician, such as a doctor or a vet, your errors can have life-changing and life-threatening consequences for your patients. The truth is, in both human and animal medicine, mistakes do happen. They happen because of human fallibility.
Brexit: pulling together as the veterinary family
27 Oct 2016 | Gudrun Ravetz | The veterinary profession
A colleague told me about a conversation she recently overhead in the gym changing rooms. One woman was telling her friend how she had been walking down the street and a man had cycled past and shouted at her “Go back to where you come from.”...
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